Product Description: The pre-quel to "Cow Hunters," "The Good Dog" is the story of one dog's journey to discover a place called home.

Product Description: Three men in a boat, a tiny boat on a raging sea.

Product Description: History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin's Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America's greatest adventure...read more

Product Description: This story appears in Tim Robinson's first novel, "Tales of Old Florida." In this edition it has been re-formated for young readers. Shipwrecks, pirates, buried treasure; desolate windswept islands, jungled forests, and the mysterious Everglade – dark and foreboding to all but the Seminole and Miccosuki...read more

Product Description: The Florida Prairie, 1860, cattle country. War looms, but to the settlers living along a jungled, tropical creek, it all seems very far away. For Becky Hackensaw, there are much more pressing matters, such as providing an education for her six children, but where to find someone willing to brave an uninhabited wilderness overrun with wild animals, alligators, poisonous snakes, and bloodthirsty mosquitoes...read more

Product Description: The Homesteaders is the sequel to Tim Robinson's first novel, Tales of Old Florida, and answers a myriad of questions that persist. Many of our most loved, and hated, characters return to find out what happens to Charlie MacLeod and Salty, his little green bird and constant companion...read more

Product Description: The Southern Frontier: A road-less, watery wilderness, uninviting and intimidating to all but the most stouthearted and adventurous. As great cities were springing up in places with names such as St. Louis, Denver, and San Francisco, the lower peninsula of Florida endured...read more

An interactive math kit features an illustrated book filled with puzzles, games, diagrams, and construction projects; and an accompanying case holds a protractor, triangles, a six-inch ruler, a pencil, a compass, a sharpener, and an eraser.

What do the most famous traitor in history, hundreds of naked soldiers, and a salmon lunch have in common? They’re all part of the amazing story of the American Revolution.Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn't one of them. What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, antedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, hundreds of soldiers plunged into battle "naked as they were born") close-up narrative filled with little-known details, lots of quotes that capture the spirit and voices of the principals ("If need be, I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston" -- George Washington), and action, It's the story of the birth of our nation, complete with soldiers, spies, salmon sandwiches, and real facts you can't help but want to tell to everyone you know.King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution by Steve Sheinkin, National Book Award Finalist Author of Bomb, a Newbery Honor Book, is a fun, funny way for young readers to learn about a chapter of American history, which has been popularized by Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway show Hamilton.“For middle-graders who find Joy Hakim’s 11-volume A History of US just too daunting, historian Sheinkin offers a more digestible version of our country’s story. . . . The author expertly combines individual stories with sweeping looks at the larger picture―tucking in extracts from letters, memorable anecdotes, pithy characterizations and famous lines with a liberal hand.” ―Kirkus Reviews A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the YearA New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing

An encyclopedic survey of the coast of Arainn, the largest of the three Aran Islands. This book uncovers the area's past, rich in history, folk life, science, and language, revealed here through its stones and stories, literatures and law traditions, and fused into an archaeology of the word. This is the second volume of the "Stones of Aran" and a companion volume to "Pilgrimage".

The author recounts his experiences traveling around the coast of Arainn, the largest of the three Aran Islands, and discusses the geology and folklore of the region

In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. The author moved from Aran to Connemara. This book is the result of his engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its history.

Product Description: This significant new book explains how work-life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose. The burgeoning literature dealing with work-life balance suggests that the developed world is more interested in this issue today than at any other time in the recent past...read more